Solar-heat-pump simulator

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6466007

Catan, M A

A solar assisted heat pump (SAHP) hardware simulator was constructed to demonstrate the potential of the vapor compression heat pump to obtain high COP's at high source temperatures, to explore the means to obtain such high efficiencies, and to test prototype hardware resulting from the SAHP development program. The original water coolant system which simulated heating loads was upgraded to accommodate liquid to air heat pumps. A further refinement to the simulator was the addition of a on-line data acquisition and reduction facility. Testing of an experimental mockup heat pump designed to operate efficiently under SAHP system conditions demonstrated that very high COP's can be achieved with conventional components. One prototype marketable SAHP constructed by Northrup has been tested under steady state conditions using the simulator.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6466007
• Report Number(s): BNL-29679; CONF-810672-24; ON: DE81024370
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
140901* -- Solar Thermal Utilization-- Space Heating & Cooling
AIR CONDITIONERS
ANALOG SYSTEMS
COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
ENERGY SYSTEMS
EQUIPMENT
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
HEAT PUMPS
HEATING LOAD
HEATING SYSTEMS
MOCKUP
SIMULATORS
SOLAR AIR CONDITIONERS
SOLAR COOLING SYSTEMS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS
SOLAR-ASSISTED HEAT PUMPS
STRUCTURAL MODELS
TESTING
WATER SOURCE HEAT PUMPS